John maxwell



(No Model.)

J. MAXWELL.

, GOFFIN PASTENER.

No. 369,198. Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

WITNESSESi INVENTOH @QM ddgww BY W ATTORNEYS UNIT STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MAXWELL, OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

COFFlN-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 369,198, dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed April 7, 1887. Serial No. 233,968. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MAXWELL, of Oneida, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lid-Fasteners for Burial- Oaskets, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has reference to lid-fasteners designed more particularly for metallic burialcaskets, and relates to the class of lid-fasteners in which the lid retaining clamps are connected to posts pivotally secured to the top of the casket and adapted to carry the clamps in and out of their operative positions.

' The object of my present invention is to simplify and reduce the cost of the attachment of the clamp-carrying posts to the top of the casket; and to that end my invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with the casket and its lid, of sockets arranged along the top of the casket, posts pivoted in said sockets, and clamps on the posts adapted to engage and retain the lid onthe casket, all as hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of the upper portion of one side of the burial-casket with the lid secured thereto by my improved lid-fast ener. Fig. 2 is transverse section of the metallic bar, which is attached to the top portion of the casket and has secured to it the post, which is provided with the lid-retaining clamp. Fig. 3 is an isometric view of a section of the aforesaid bar, and Fig. 4 is a de tached side view of the post to which the lid retaining clamp is connected.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the side wall of the metallic burial-casket, having secured to its top a metallic bar, B, which projects over the exterior of the aforesaid wall in the usual manner.

Ldenotes the lid, which has secured to its base a stifleningbar, a, by which it rests on the packing-strip b, placed upon the bar B, and is thus provided with an airtight seat upon the casket. The outer projecting portion of the bar B, I provide with a series of sockets, c c, which I prefer to form by drilling vertically through the bar cylindrical eyes, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. In these sockets I pivot the metallic posts P, which are formed at their feet with journals d, by which they are stepped into the aforesaid sockets c c, and thus pivoted on the bar B, the post being provided with ashoulder, e, by which it rests on top of the bar B. The journal (I is of sufficient length to pass completely through the bar B, and terminates with clinching-prongs t i, which I spread or upset against the under side of the bar B, and thus retain the post P secured to said bar.

The aforesaid connection of the post]? with the bar B allows said post to be turned on its axis, so as to carry the lid-retaining clamp D in and out of its operative position. Saidclamp may be of any suitable form, though preferably ofthe form ofa cam or eccentric pivoted on a horizontal arm projecting from the post,

said cam and eccentric being adapted to bear on top of the stiffeningbar a, secured to the base'of the lid L, as hereinbefore stated.

It will be observed that the described attachment of the post P to the barB is effected in a very simple and inexpensive manner,and the attachment is permanent and secure.

I do not wish to limit my invention to the retention of the pivoted post on the top bar of the casket by clinching or upsetting the end of the journal of the post against the under side of the aforesaid bar, as it is obvious that the same object can be attained by inserting a linchpin in an eye extending transversely through the protruding end of the journal,and by other well-known means.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure 1 and upset against the under side of said bars, 

